It’s a poetical new year and I am formulating plans, plans and more plans. This year the Monster Blogs on average are five years old so I am planning on lots of stuff to do with that. Resolution wise – I would like to take part in the poetry writing challenges once more and set […]
Another February gone and a note book full of poems it has wrought. I have a lot of editing a head of me as I always do after such writing challenges. I want to let the poems I’ve not popped on here (of which there are alot from various workshops and writing meet-ups I went […]
As part of the poetry writing drive for WoPoWriMo this month, I have donated some of my art work for postcards and stickers. The images I chose where Creativi Tea and Normali Tea which are part of one of my larger visual poetry projects. There is competition on the site (free to enter!), to win […]
As part of WoPoWriMo I have been meeting up with other writers to help them with writers block and what not. So I made some little booklets from old magazines and card cut with my special edging scissors. This are visual poems in their own right but can be used to inspire writers. One contained […]
I have been chugging away at the poetry and have in fact surpassed the total number but the poems are raw and in need of some desperate editing. A lot of them are also concepts that have been flying around my head for months. Add in the fact that I wrote in the Arts Cafe […]
A raw Wopo poem: My Friend You are loud Talking incessantly Just calm down please Words cascade over me Your happy, your sad In love, oh no mad? On and On… Words Tripping over tongue As the story is spun out I missed which of the love interests We are discussing today Around you I […]
I love writing poetry in note books rather than straight onto the computer – I do sometimes type them straight out but not normally as I write poetry when and were the idea strikes and this often means that I am out or in bed or some such. I always carry a note book with […]
This is the web-badge for WoPoWriMo and yes it is one of my drawings 🙂 I am still trying to write my poem so you may well be getting it tomorrow – I have decided to post something on here each day during the challenge but obviously this means the poems are going to be […]
I already have 48 poems – some very rough, others less so and all dark and twisted and fitting with the gothic theme so I am very happy 🙂 They will steadily be appearing on Black Monster. Yet again this year I failed to actually sign up to the site :/ But as the poems […]
January is always Month of Poetry as started by Kathryn Apel. The idea like most poem a day challenges is to write a poem each and everyday. I like to up the stakes a bit generally and am going for an hour spent on poetry each day instead. Now it is 11 days into January […]